Low 2.1Published Feb 1, 2012

CVE-2012-0450Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 9.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.7 on Linux and Mac OS X set weak permissions for Firefox Recovery Key.html, which might allow local users to read a Firefox Sync key via standar…

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Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 9.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.7 on Linux and Mac OS X set weak permissions for Firefox Recovery Key.html, which might allow local users to read a Firefox Sync key via standard filesystem operations.

CVSS: 2.1 LOW (v2.0, NVD)AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-264
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

mozilla firefox mozilla:firefox	4.0; 4.0; 4.0; 4.0; 4.0; 4.0; 4.0; 4.0; and 15 more ranges	NVD
mozilla seamonkey mozilla:seamonkey	through 2.7; 1.0; 1.0; 1.0.1; 1.0.2; 1.0.3; 1.0.4; 1.0.5; and 88 more ranges	NVD

References

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00011.html
http://osvdb.org/78741
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:013
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-09.html	vendor-advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716868
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72869
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14670

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